Paper box.



PATENTED MAY 29, 1906.

P. R. WARREN.

PAPER BOX.

APPLIGATION FILED AUG.18, 1905.

lSTATES PAPER Box.

Speccaton of Letters Patent.

Patented Mey 29, 1906.

Application filed August 18, 1905. Serial No. 274.696.

To a/ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, PETER', R. WARREN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Brookline, county of Norfolk, State of Massachusetts, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Paper Boxes, of which the following is a specification, reference being had therein to the accompanying drawings.

My invention has for its object to provide an improved folding box of the kind in -which A one end folds over two end wings, and forms a double bottom for the box. The box embodying my invention may be used either with or without a tube, and it may also be employed as a cover for a box.

My invention has for its object to provide means for preventing the double bottom from becoming displaced, so that articles -contained ,within the boxshall not have any opportunity of getting under the bottom of the box and also so that the box may not be weakened by the lifting up of this double bottom.

My invention has also for its obj ect to provide a box which may be pulled out ofthe tube in which it is placed or from underv a pile of boxes without the parts becoming dis- 'I placed even when it is filled with heavy articles. A box embodying my invention is very strong and not likely to become knocked down.

v My invention will be fully understood from .the following description, taken in connection with the accompanying drawings, and the Vnovel features thereof will be pointed out and clearly defined in the claims :at the close of this specification.

. In the drawings, Figure 1 is a plan view of the blank suitable to be folded up to form the box embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a view, on asomewhat enlarged scale, of the box just before the bottom is pressed into place. Fig. 3 is a tube for the reception of the box. Fig. 4 is a view in perspective of the righthand end of the box seen in Fig. 2- before the parts are folded into position and shows in addition the modified form of locking means. Fig. 5 is a similar view of the opposite end of the box. Fig. 6 is a perspective view, partly in section, of one cnd of the box and shows the bottom and locking means in their final position.

In the drawings, referring first to Fig; 1, A indicates the bottom of the box, B B the sides of the box, and C C the ends of the box. Attached to the sides B are end-wings D,

which fold inwardly, as shown in Figs. 4'and i 5, when the sides B are folded into their upright position. Attached tov one end vpiece C is the inner end piece E and the double bot- PETER nJwARREN, oF'BnooxLINE, MASSACHUSETTS.

tom F, which corresponds substantially in size to the bottom A. To the other end piece C of the box is attached a corresponding inner end ieoe E, to which in turn are attached the loc 'ng means, whichIhave shown herein as consisting of a tongue or tuck G, lo cated between two projecting portions II' and I. This lock may be made many-convenl i ient form-as, for instance, in the shape of a single locking-tongue diedout of the bottom' locklng-piece'J. (Sec Fig. 4.) The various portions of the box-blank described in Fig.;1A are bent along the proper lines, and any convement means-as, for instance, creasing or scorin'g-may .be employed to facilitate this bending.

In making up the box the sides Bare first bent to a vertical position and the end wings I D are turned inwardly until they assume the f y positions shown in Figs. 4 and 5. Afterthis the ends C C are folded against the end wings D and the edge K of the double bottom F inserted under the lock G, after which the double bottom F is sprung down into position. It will thus be seen that when this is done the end'C and inner end iece E lie against the two sides of the end wings D, holding the said end wings firmly between them. The double bottom F lies clos'el against the bottom A, except at therightand end of the box, where the same is sllghtly lifted up-by the interposition of the side pieces H and I.

The double bottom F is held place by the locking-tongue and by the reverse bend given it when it is placed in position, so that there is no ossibility of its springing up and allowing t e articles placed in the box to work underneath the bottom firmly I in Fig. 3) by taking hold of the end of the box, as has been the case with boxes of this kind heretofore made. l

To provide further security against the parts becoming displaced and 1n order that a person who'desires -to remove the box from the tube may do so easily and without injury to the box inwhich it is placed, I form thumbpulls L on each end of the box by'cutting them as shown in Figs. 2, 4, 5, and 6. These thumb-pulls have atendency to bend down slightly when the box is in its folded position, as seen in Fig. 6, and are thus easy to take false bottom, the opposite end of said bottom opposite end-forming portion having an extension which forms a double end, and a further extension which rests on the bottom and is slitted back from the end to form a tongue between which and the body of said slitted extension the end of said false bottom is received.

2. A folding paper box comprising a bottom portion, side-formingiiaps and end-forming flaps, an extension of one end of said bottom'portion forming a double end, and a portion having an extension which forms a double end, and a further extension which 1s -slitted back from the end to form a tongue between which and the body of said slitted extension the end of said false; bottom is received.

3. A folding paper box formed of a single blank, having a bottom portion, two wings which form the sides, each side wing having flaps which turn inward to form ends, the bottom having at-one end an extension which folds up over the outer side and down on the inner side of the end-forming flaps of the side wings, and a further extension which forms a false inner bottom for said box, the opposite end of said bottom portion having an extension which folds up on the outer side and down in the inner side of the` end-forming flaps of the side wings, and a further extension which is slitted to form a tongue between which and the body of said extension the end of said false bottom is received.

'In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

PETER R. WARREN.

Witnesses GEORGE P. DIKE,

ALICE H. MORRISON. 

